Capital (world)

Capital/Core (Core 2118)
Milieu 0	A586A98-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population A High (30 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
Classic Era (1116)	A586A98-F Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population A High (60 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level F High Stellar (anagathics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G2 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	5

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Capital is a high-population world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

• The world has a Data Repository or a centralized collection of information and data.
• This world is also the overall capital of an interstellar government with the massive extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or over technology standards for Charted Space.
• It is a member of the Sylean Worlds, a cultural region and full member state of the Third Imperium in the Core Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.

• This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• This world has a nearby Imperial Way Station.
• Prior to the founding of the Third Imperium, this world was named Sylea, and was home to the Syleans, a minor human race.
• About 50% of the population is composed of Syleans.
• About 50% of the population is composed of other humans and non-human sophonts.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Capital is the central world of the Imperium and seat of government since its founding. Situated in the center of the Imperium, Capital's astrographical position has proven of prime importance as a communications hub, a cultural center, and an industrial focus.

• Capital is home to the Imperial Guard, Imperial Palace, Moot, and the Moot Spire among other well-known points of interest within the Third Imperium.

Monostellar System

Capital Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Zan Ki Ond G2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1	5720 - 5770	1
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0829	0.95 - 1.68	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	4	1	6
	Remarks
	None

System Data

Zhimaway is a gas giant in the Sylea system.

Mainworld Data

The planet is a pleasant world, 7,600km in diameter and with a surface gravity of approximately 0.7G.

• The atmosphere is a dense mixture of oxygen and nitrogen.
• Three fifths of the planetary surface is covered by water oceans, with five major continents and one minor continent including five large islands and nine archipelagos.
• Capital has a rotational period of 24h 4m 1s and an orbital period of 364.97 standard days, with an axial tilt of approximately 20.5°.

Mainworld Size (S)

No information yet available.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Capital has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. A Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

No information yet available.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

Capital (the planet once known as Sylea) is a moderate-sized world with a lot of people, compounded by the fact that a little more than half its surface is water. A lot means eighty billion; moderate-sized means, after subtracting water, about eight billion hectares.

• 10% A tenth is devoted to food production (long ago, that was two-tenths, but that was long ago): it is impractical (if not impossible) to import food for billions of people.
• 20% Two-tenths is mountain, canyon, rock, and crag.
• 20% Another two-tenths is snowlands: both support scattered communities, but certainly no appreciable population density.
• 50% Half the land is urban, four billion hectares for 80 billion people: perhaps 20 per hectare, 2,000 per square kilometer. Terribly crowded, oppressive, single-level urban areas make do with such densities over a few hundred square kilometers. Capital maintains such densities across all its settled lands. Yet. For many, Capital is a pleasant environment, an attractive community. High-rise and plunging arcologies house millions in high-density comfort and safety: the masses of the bureaucracy that drive the engines of the empire must live in comfort and safety.

Mainworld Map

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

The world is teeming with life.

• Gnudabik lowland ecology

Native Sophont (NIL): Syleans

The Syleans are a Minor Human Race, who were contacted by the Vilani and made part of the First Imperium. A small group of rebellious Syleans were kept on reservations.

History & Background (Dossier)

This is a high population world in Core Subsector of Core Sector.

It is the location of an Imperial Data Repository. It is a treasure trove of secrets and sensitive data.

• The site is heavily guarded. Access to the information it contains is carefully controlled.

Imperial Landed Nobility (N)

Capital, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of five members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
• It holds the estate of an Imperial count.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial subsector duke.
• It holds the fiefdom of the Imperial archduke.
• It also serves as the seat of the Emperor of the Third Imperium.
• See: Nobles of Capital

World Starport (Sp)

Capital has a Class A Starport, an excellent quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Population (P)

No information yet available.

World Demographics

Eighty billion sentients inhabit Capital, mostly members of Humaniti, a number which has remained fairly constant through the entire Third Imperium.

• Of these, thirty-six percent are primarily racial Vilani, eleven percent are Solomani and fifty percent are native Syleans, and the remaining three percent consists of a mixture of various human and non-human minor races.
  • 50% Native Sylean
  • 36% Vilani
  • 11% Solomani
  • 3% A mixture of various human and non-human minor races

World Government (G)

Capital is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government is another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

• Capital is a member of, and the capital world for, the Imperium.

World Law Level (L)

Capital has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All blade weapons and firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

Law level 8: Long bladed weapons controlled; open possession prohibited

World Technology Level (TL)

Capital possesses a Technology Level of TL–15 or TL-F in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Meson Communicators and Pseudo Reality Communications.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, improved collectors, and advanced Fusion+.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land & Water: Advanced gravcraft.
  • Air: Advanced gravcraft and speeders.
  • Space: Advanced gravcraft and G-Carriers.
  • FTL: Jump Drive-6.

Capital/Sylea is the home of the Imperial Sylean University and the University of Sylea

World Military

The system hosts a Naval Base and a Scout Way Station.

World Economy

Capital has a gross planetary product of 1,438,927 BCr, over one quadrillion credits. Its per-capita income is therefore 17,986 Credits, nearly three times the Imperial average, reflecting the extra trade and prestige accompanying its political role. As such, it accounts for over 1% of the entire economic output of the Imperium.

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Economic Extension (Ex):

• Resources: Extremely Abundant (H)
  • (Resources are any materials available for processing and exploitation. They include natural resources, minerals, ores, metals, energy sources, biological assets, and any other materials of limited availability.)
• Labor: Billions (9)
  • (Labor is the workforce available for the processing and exploitation of Resources.)
• Infrastructure: Extremely Comprehensive (G)
  • (Infrastructure is the established technical structures that support exploitation of resources. Infrastructure includes roads, power grids, communications, and factories.)
• Efficiency +/-4 (4)
  • (Efficiency reflects the current economic system, and includes sensible legal procedures, appropriate tariffs, customs promoting a balanced work ethic, rewards for merit, and social structures which match ability and job. Negative Efficiency is worse. Efficiency at -1 or less turn the RUs available negative: the Inefficiencies are so destructive as to make the economy a net drain. Such barriers represent a welfare state; cultural influences which do not value wealth, even physical limitations. On the other hand, since some economies have positive efficiencies: positive multipliers increasing available RU. )

Economic Extension:

• (The Economic Extension (Ex) is the strength of a world economy and provides basic insights into the economy’s structure and capabilities.)
• Resource Units- +/-TBD
  • (The world's budget.)

Trade Data

No information yet available.

Urbanization

• Adjacent to the Moot Spire is a building holding the headquarters of the Order of Starship and Crown.
• Adjacent to the Imperial Palace is the headquarters of the Honorable Order of the Emperor's Guard.
• Adjacent to the Headquarters of the IISS is the headquarters of the Order of the Arrow.
• The building formerly occupied by the Sylean Grand Senate now holds the headquarters of the Ancient and Preeminent Order of Sylea.

• Capital has 5 primary cities:

• Benca (Class A starport / population 6 billion)
• Cleon (Class A starport / population 4 billion)
• Mifa Lanco (Class A starport / population 3 billion)
• Turthu (Class A starport / population 9 billion)
• Ton Vorn (orbital complex) (Class A starport / population 5 billion)

• Capital has 28 secondary cities (Class F spaceports / population 30 billion total)
• Capital has 135 tertiary cities (Class H spaceports / population 23 billion total)

World Infrastructure

This world possesses Extremely Comprehensive (G) infrastructure.

World Culture

• Progressiveness: Conservative and Indifferent
• Aggressiveness: Unaggressive and Peaceable
• Extensiveness: Harmonious and Friendly

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Cultural Extension (Cx):

• Homogeneity: Discordant (A)
  • (Homogeneity is a measure of the degree to which members of society hold common beliefs. Members of very homogeneous cultures are in strong agreement on the fundamentals of society (usually basic rights, religion, and methods of interaction). Members of non-homogeneous cultures hold many different beliefs on the fundamentals of society.)
• Acceptance: Extremely xenophilic (E)
  • (Acceptance is the degree of xenophobia ( or xenophilia ) in the culture. High Acceptance is evidenced by friendliness to outsiders and offworlders; Low Acceptance is characterized by fear or rejection of outsiders.)
• Strangeness: Distinct (5)
  • (Strangeness is the degree of difference from the norms of interstellar society. High Strangeness is evidenced by unusual or outwardly incomprehensible actions, statements, or responses in the course daily activity. Low Strangeness reflects activities close to interstellar norms.)
• Symbols: Extremely abstract (F)
  • (Symbols used by the culture may range from the concrete (idols; totems; statuary) to the abstract (symbolized belief systems; group affiliations).)

World Language/s

• Anglic
• Vilani (language)

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

History-Era: Rebellion

Under the divided Imperium, with no emperor officially proclaimed by action of the Moot, Capital is a head without a brain, and the separate domains of the Imperium have been forced to fend for themselves under the independent leadership of their local archdukes.

• Once the current political turmoil has settled down and the Imperium is reunited, Capital will again take its place as the centerpiece of human civilization.

UWP Listing

• (0): A586A98-C
• (1105): A586A98-F

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